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Enhancing Education through Technology 2009

Enhancing Education through Technology 2009 > EETT Grant Evaluation > View Response #34

EETT Grant Evaluation: View Response #34

Level of participation (check all that apply)

Level 1

Please rate your grant experience using the Web 2.0 tools (wikis, blogs, podcasts, social networking, rss feeds) and their impact on:

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Teaching behaviors
The curriculum
Instructional practices

Please rate your grant experience using the Web 2.0 equipment (iTouch, iPod, iMacs, iTunes, iLife) and their impact on:

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Teaching behaviors
The curriculum
Instructional practices

Please rate your grant experience and its impact on:

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Teachers’ interactions with one another.
Wider teacher communities.
Teachers sharing what they are learning.
Teachers using technology differently.

Please rate how you feel the activities that are a result of the grant will:

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Impact students’ 21st century skills.
Increase fluency with information technology.
Effect classroom culture.
Effect comprehension and retention of material.
Effect student interest.

What are the most promising instructional applications of technology you explored?

MOBILITY for music (Ipod); FEEDBACK as in making a podcast of recorder performances; performance ENHANCING as in using "garage band" to speak (dramatics), add music, web sites, and embedded websites.

Will you use technology differently in your classroom?

Yes

Please estimate the number of hours spent outside of class exploring and/or working on grant related projects.

Please offer positive feedback for improvements.

Please have all prerequisites (itunes connections, etc.) before a class is given using the equipment. Valuable instruction time was used to get things up and running. Continue to bring in the best speakers/demonstrators to show us what is possible. The Mac people were great.